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The Corgi edition shown here has the wrong text description: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

The text on the back cover is as below.

Thanks, Matthew

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When Isherwood Williams came down from the mountains, he found the world empty. The end had been cruel, the lethal virus spreading with a speed and thoroughness only a few had anticipated. Yet its invisible malevolence had destroyed a complete civilisation, leaving behind merely its symbols and structures — empty streets and deserted buildings, abandoned cars and silent screens: a waste land, now occupied by the scavengers … the wild dogs, the rats, and the few human survivors.

For a few HAD escaped the cataclysm. But did they want to build a new society, to begin again … or were they simply a part of the inexorable process of returning every living thing to the savage state of Nature?